Rob Costain

No. I get the points made about my comment. I'm still on the fence about whether we should amplify (and potentially normalize) this awful public expression of racism.

It’s repugnant. So why exactly are you re-sharing it?

They could but will they?

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CBS News is dead and buried as far as I’m concerned. I’ll never watch it again.

Looks more like a cash grab to me.

Do you really think he’s not going to donate the original total? It’s a bit and it’s working

As a kid I always found that walkway leading to the Bonaventure Metro very cool. Like I was in a Star Trek set or something.

I enjoyed it, but that’s me.

I long for the days when Canada had a Progressive Conservative Party and not a regionally based grievance party.

Canadian polling has fared better in recent years than in the US. I hope this analysis is wrong.

my new argument against uber with everything going on is simply going to be “why are you giving your money to a US multinational when you could be using a local taxi service?”

😳 Oops. lol

ASUS and Acer are both Taiwanese companies and they are a huge producer of semiconductors

Gema Pizzeria est superbe!

It’s official, a record was just set in Montreal with 70 cms of snow! It's the heaviest 4-day snowfall since 1898! Neige record à Montréal : une première en 125 ans !

Very cool! Is that a built-in quick action or did you create it with Automator or Shortcuts?
Reminiscent of Excel’s web data import that unfortunately only works well on the windows version.

I Used ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant. It Didn’t Go Well – The Markup The AI tool ignored basic instructions about sourcing and citations. But it’s a pretty good newsroom coding partner.

I Used ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant. It Didn’t Go Well themarkup.org/hello-world/...

Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests Researchers found the stop-start way we drive actually prolongs battery life.

- They just want to be free! -
Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests
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Ultra-Fast Cancer Treatment Developed FLASH radiotherapy, a groundbreaking cancer treatment developed by CERN and CHUV, delivers ultra-high dose radiation in milliseconds, potentially...

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You may be right, but as a centre-left voter I'd rather have Carney than the alternatives available. Let's not eat our own...

Brandon Gill can get f***ed

I don’t want to seem too conspiracy minded but Santé Québec seems like the first on-ramp of the road to privatization of healthcare.

Famous maple syrup heist keeps a distinct Quebec flavour in Amazon's The Sticky The theft of six million pounds of maple syrup in 2011 and 2012 was the basis for the black-comedy series, debuting Friday.

The Sticky, Amazon's take on the Great Maple Syrup Heist, maintains its Québécois flavour. "I hear our accents, I hear the Québécois swear words we were able to get into the dialogue, the bit of French... and so throughout the show we feel like we’re in Quebec.” montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

In the past 10 days or so I’ve been followed by a proliferation of fake or junk accounts that post no original content. If you’re not a legitimate account I will block you.

What’s up with the crappy battery life in iOS 18.1? If I leave my iPhone sitting on my desk face down doing nothing all day, I go from 95% to below 40% by the end of the day. Face down! Screen off. It’s so frustrating! #ios18 #iOS #iphone #apple #batterylife

Energy consumption is one of the biggest concerns with respect to the expansion of AI and the heavy reliance on energy-hungry datacentres. Hopefully there will be solutions that help reduce consumption and heat production.

Bluesky Won't Use Data for AI Training Bluesky, a burgeoning social media platform, has firmly declared it will not use user-generated content for training generative AI models, emphasizing its...

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It's happening!

I've had my account for a while and had the same issue this morning. I edited my handle and resaved it and it works now